Another more unlikely - but popular - theory is that the painting was a self portrait. And NASA never landed on the moon And JFK was shot by three shooters...
Bill Budge was the Apple II graphics guru. By the time he wrote a library for creating 3-D wireframe games and a game using that library ("Tranquility Base") in 1981, he had already authored three other Apple II games. He's also the original king of computer pinball, a title that seems to exchange hands monthly these days.
Good attempt with the examples but way over exagerated. Windows is not 'locked down' or unconfigurable, just like Linux all the advanced settings are hidden under many obscure, obfuscated and undocumented tools. Between regedit.exe and gpedit.msc you can completely change the behaviour and look of Windows if you know what you are doing. There are even tools available to help you out with a lot of this and even the kernel is hackable. Just that people will usually offer these tools at $19.95 or more so you don't have to learn as much.
There is really not too much difference between Windows and Linux other then the look and feel and how people perceive them. If you don't like to tinker around Windows is for you and so is Linux (pick a distro that is preconfigured and has good hardware support, I hear Ubuntu is good at that). If you like to tinker use Windows or Linux, they both are highly configurable once you know what you are doing
Ya, because we all know that the louder ones make up the majority...
Most Linux users I know are not like that and fully support the 'use the right tool for the right job' even if that includes using MicroSoft products.
Most Open Source projects I know don't have the 'you fix it attitude' but more of a 'let me know what's wrong and I'll add it to the list', they do include their emails for a reason. Most OS developers do it for fun and/or to fill a need (usually their own but are open to suggestions) and don't make any money from what they do. Do you call people assholes for holding a door open for you when they don't have to?
Don't like it, don't use it is what it all boils down to. Stop the bitching and get on with your life instead of trying to make others miserable for no reason. When some tells you to do something about it, it doesn't mean 'fix it yourself' it means 'help with the direction and make it better with your input' which doesn't mean hack the source yourself
cat/proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 119.754
and 45136 kB of memory, it's a Samba server with a private web server and gnump3 server. Haven't had a problem with it and does it's job quitely. Going on 60 days uptime since the last power outage.
And to top it off, I wen't psycho and installed gentoo from source...only took a weekend to get the base system. But being an install, throw in the closet and forget about it box it works great. =-)
Is there any situation where you can see yourself open to the possibility of using an Ad-Supported operating system?
No
Not that an ad supported browser wasn't bad enough, now we can get an OS that spams us constantly no matter what. Imagine writting an email then a big popup comes up the same time you hit space so the popup thinks you want to goto the site and opens IE to take you there...wow, that would be sweet if the OS could take over my life!
You could always give them the password so they can see you're drive is just full of a bunch of pron instead of waiting for them not to find anything incriminating...unless you really do have something to hide;) Then you'll need those 90 days so your friends can try to break you out in time
Being 'overrated' lets add more fuel to the fire:)
Those applets are nice but they both rely on constants, as if gravity never changes. There are lots of things that can change the orbit of an object, different areas of the Earth have greater pull then others (oceans don't have as much 'pull' as say continents and the Moon is a huge variable. Atmospheric drag is another that can not be calculated as well as other variables.
Simply put, there are too many things that 'could' happen for someone to expect long term stability in an orbit. These 'orbital correction' burns are very common in any orbiting body and the closer they are to the planet the more often they are needed.
Troll: Last I heard was the the Moon is in a decaying orbit and is expected to crash into the Earth within the next 1 billion years or so =P
There's this thing called 'gravity' that has a tendency to pull objects towards it. In a 'decaying orbit' the object is slowly getting pulled towards a gravity well (in this case ISS towards Earth) and as the object gets closer to the well the gravitational pull increases.
the 'losing 1km per week' is the current rate, as it gets lower (closer to Earth) the rate of decent will increase until it passes that threshold and is completely pulled in by the gravity...turning it into a very large fireball as it plummets and crashes somewhere, hopefully into an ocean or somewhere unpopulated as I'm sure it would make a very big bang when it hits:)
Intel has been really slacking more and more since AMD beat them in the 1GHz race. After that Intel has seemingly been focusing on making the 'fastest processor' and not improving on the design much.
It seems to me that Intel procs these days are more of the same but overclocked; while AMD has been making their procs more efficient, by running cooler and streamlining the instructions.
Faster isn't better these days and Intel needs to realize this before it's too late. I just picked up a +3200 AMD Sempron which is clocked at 1.8Ghz and compre that to the AthlonXP +1600 at 1.4Ghz I had before, it has well over double the perfomance in almost every application. From doubling the fps in Doom3 to cutting compile times down by half. For a 400Mhz difference there is a lot more going on then just 'speed'
The new display which has a 100DPI resolution and is only 300 microns thick has the potential of truely changing the way we read our information."
Didn't they do this 4 years ago? Why hasn't it become mainstream yet? I keep waiting to actually see something that uses this tech and is not a prototype...
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Another more unlikely - but popular - theory is that the painting was a self portrait.
And NASA never landed on the moon
And JFK was shot by three shooters...
Hello! It looks like you are trying to write a letter, may I be of...oh, oh man...geez, I'm sorry...sorry!
In otherwords, it's mis-labled on the picture. Thats what happens when you let marketing make up sales images for a tech product
My guess on the slowness is that you are not using 3d accel drivers (or don't have any) for your video card.
Google me this Batman
Bill Budge was the Apple II graphics guru. By the time he wrote a library for creating 3-D wireframe games and a game using that library ("Tranquility Base") in 1981, he had already authored three other Apple II games. He's also the original king of computer pinball, a title that seems to exchange hands monthly these days.
AV is used for the infection, safe hex/safer sectors prevents the infection in the first place.
Would you rather have a bottle of penicillin ready for you or avoid having to use it in the first place?
Copy is a bad word and is what will cause flames, try using "incorporate" or "enhance"
There is nothing wrong with using a good idea. If we didn't we'd all be driving Fords...and personally, that scares me!
Not deaf ears, but now more confused ones :p
Good attempt with the examples but way over exagerated. Windows is not 'locked down' or unconfigurable, just like Linux all the advanced settings are hidden under many obscure, obfuscated and undocumented tools. Between regedit.exe and gpedit.msc you can completely change the behaviour and look of Windows if you know what you are doing. There are even tools available to help you out with a lot of this and even the kernel is hackable. Just that people will usually offer these tools at $19.95 or more so you don't have to learn as much.
There is really not too much difference between Windows and Linux other then the look and feel and how people perceive them. If you don't like to tinker around Windows is for you and so is Linux (pick a distro that is preconfigured and has good hardware support, I hear Ubuntu is good at that). If you like to tinker use Windows or Linux, they both are highly configurable once you know what you are doing
Ya, because we all know that the louder ones make up the majority...
Most Linux users I know are not like that and fully support the 'use the right tool for the right job' even if that includes using MicroSoft products.
Most Open Source projects I know don't have the 'you fix it attitude' but more of a 'let me know what's wrong and I'll add it to the list', they do include their emails for a reason. Most OS developers do it for fun and/or to fill a need (usually their own but are open to suggestions) and don't make any money from what they do.
Do you call people assholes for holding a door open for you when they don't have to?
Don't like it, don't use it is what it all boils down to. Stop the bitching and get on with your life instead of trying to make others miserable for no reason. When some tells you to do something about it, it doesn't mean 'fix it yourself' it means 'help with the direction and make it better with your input' which doesn't mean hack the source yourself
Got me beat
cat
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 119.754
and 45136 kB of memory, it's a Samba server with a private web server and gnump3 server. Haven't had a problem with it and does it's job quitely. Going on 60 days uptime since the last power outage.
And to top it off, I wen't psycho and installed gentoo from source...only took a weekend to get the base system. But being an install, throw in the closet and forget about it box it works great. =-)
Thats what wars are for, mandatory population control
Or like Logan's Run...kill everyone when they turn 30
Is there any situation where you can see yourself open to the possibility of using an Ad-Supported operating system?
No
Not that an ad supported browser wasn't bad enough, now we can get an OS that spams us constantly no matter what. Imagine writting an email then a big popup comes up the same time you hit space so the popup thinks you want to goto the site and opens IE to take you there...wow, that would be sweet if the OS could take over my life!
> kill troll with nasty knife
I get that when running xcomposite with an nvidia card, it looks nice but is extremely buggy
You could always give them the password so they can see you're drive is just full of a bunch of pron instead of waiting for them not to find anything incriminating...unless you really do have something to hide ;)
Then you'll need those 90 days so your friends can try to break you out in time
The grammer nazi strikes again! my bad
;-)
funny that everyone else seamed to 'get it' though...
You might want to fix your sig, links to parked domains are no fun to view
Damn, my troll was busted
We should post links to an ever changing publicly editable Wiki page on this as 'proof positive' on what we claim is fact =P
Being 'overrated' lets add more fuel to the fire :)
Those applets are nice but they both rely on constants, as if gravity never changes. There are lots of things that can change the orbit of an object, different areas of the Earth have greater pull then others (oceans don't have as much 'pull' as say continents and the Moon is a huge variable.
Atmospheric drag is another that can not be calculated as well as other variables.
Simply put, there are too many things that 'could' happen for someone to expect long term stability in an orbit. These 'orbital correction' burns are very common in any orbiting body and the closer they are to the planet the more often they are needed.
Troll: Last I heard was the the Moon is in a decaying orbit and is expected to crash into the Earth within the next 1 billion years or so =P
"Isn't that the satellite that's raining debris all over Europe?"
There's this thing called 'gravity' that has a tendency to pull objects towards it.
:)
In a 'decaying orbit' the object is slowly getting pulled towards a gravity well (in this case ISS towards Earth) and as the object gets closer to the well the gravitational pull increases.
the 'losing 1km per week' is the current rate, as it gets lower (closer to Earth) the rate of decent will increase until it passes that threshold and is completely pulled in by the gravity...turning it into a very large fireball as it plummets and crashes somewhere, hopefully into an ocean or somewhere unpopulated as I'm sure it would make a very big bang when it hits
Correction: ;)
I have a +3100 AMD Sempron not a +3200 AMD Sempron
Intel has been really slacking more and more since AMD beat them in the 1GHz race. After that Intel has seemingly been focusing on making the 'fastest processor' and not improving on the design much.
It seems to me that Intel procs these days are more of the same but overclocked; while AMD has been making their procs more efficient, by running cooler and streamlining the instructions.
Faster isn't better these days and Intel needs to realize this before it's too late.
I just picked up a +3200 AMD Sempron which is clocked at 1.8Ghz and compre that to the AthlonXP +1600 at 1.4Ghz I had before, it has well over double the perfomance in almost every application. From doubling the fps in Doom3 to cutting compile times down by half. For a 400Mhz difference there is a lot more going on then just 'speed'
The new display which has a 100DPI resolution and is only 300 microns thick has the potential of truely changing the way we read our information."
Didn't they do this 4 years ago? Why hasn't it become mainstream yet?
I keep waiting to actually see something that uses this tech and is not a prototype...
Dvorak isn't bashing Windows, read some of his older articles...he bashes everything!
He's just a cranky old man. Damn whippersnappers!
Considering 'buying votes' is illegal...Damn fascists! How dare they impede on my freedoms to fix elections!